Thursday, February 26, 2009

Does anyone remember really around what year they started becoming popular? I'm thinking that it was 1995 that they started becoming popular in a hippie-chic kind of way, but by 1998 they had become so ubiquitous that they were basically the only acceptable type of shorts that guys would wear. I think it was around 1999 that they had completely usurped jorts as the official "dude shorts". My basis for this date is a memory in high school of my friend Emily stated that summer that she was on the fence about going all the way with the guy she was dating. She was going to leave it in the hands of fate: if the next time she saw him, he was wearing jean shorts, it was a no-go. Sadly, the next day the jorts were in and the teen lust was out.

So by that math, cargo shorts have been infesting my eyes for ten years now. When is this going to end? Shouldn't fads have a finite limit, like bell bottoms or hoop skirts? At what point will it become retro? In like 2050?

I use my cargo shorts to do yard work, change the oil et al.. But Robert H is right - it's truly difficult to find non-cargo shorts in stores. I don't really like anything in my pockets, so they are useless to me but alas, I have a few pairs.

I love that everyone ignores the waterfall of barf and zeroes in on the truly horrifying part of this photo: the cargo shorts. Also, gotta love the title. This blog makes me laugh derisively at others every day. Thanks!